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• Rape & Murder at R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital : Implications in Society and Politics in West Bengal | Sujit Kumar Paul & Souradeep Sarkar

  28 September 2024

  The Incident and Allegations
  On 9th August 9.30 am, a 31-year-old lady who was a trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar room in R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata by a first-year PGT doctor. As per the report, her body was half-dressed. It is on the opinion that the hospital authority and police personnel were not working properly. The principal of the college, when questioned by the media, raised concerns about why the victim was in the seminar room. However, the truth (…)

• Blood and Bias: The Case for Reforming India’s Outdated Donation Policies | Disha

  28 September 2024, by Disha

  Abstract
  This article explores the ongoing debate over blood donation policies in India, focusing on the restrictions imposed on LGBT+ individuals and transgender people. Originating from global responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, these restrictions were initially justified by fears of HIV transmission but have persisted despite advancements in HIV detection technology. In India, the National Blood Transfusion Council and the National AIDS Control Organization’s 2017 guidelines

• Ensuring Integrity in University Leadership: GIPE’s Path Forward |

  28 September 2024, by S N Tripathy

  Higher education is critical to national development as it enhances intellectual capabilities and improves living standards. The National Education Policy (NEP)

• Where Has Smaller and Alternative News Content Gone? Big Tech Has Monopolized the Web | Martha Rosenberg

  28 September 2024, by Martha Rosenberg

  While the Web began egalitarian

• Dissanayake win in Sri Lanka its implications for India | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  28 September 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

  For more reasons than one, India need not be unduly bothered by the regime change in Sri Lanka.
  But it will be na

• Israel’s attacks on Lebanon could sow the seeds of its next threat | Michael Humphrey

  28 September 2024

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  Remembering Shankar Guha Niyogi

  28 September 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  [fond noir][blanc]TRIBUTEblanc]fond noir]
  September 28 is the death anniversary of India

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  Observe October 7: End the War in Gaza, Solidarity with Palestine | Joint Statement by Left Parties

  28 September 2024

  September 26, 2024
  Press Statement
  The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party have issued the following statement:
  Observe October 7: End the War in Gaza, Solidarity with Palestine
  October 7, marks the completion of one year of Israel

• Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Revolution | Marie Louise Berneri

  28 September 2024

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  Henschel. Review of Rosamund Johnston’s, Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969

  28 September 2024

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
  by Rosamund Johnston
  Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe Series
  Stanford University Press
  2024. 308 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3869-3
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  Reviewed by Frank Henschel (Kiel University)
  Communism on Air
  Rosamund Johnston